ceqa creates the exemption.n we are hear to side noto relitigate the design of the bikeway the question of is this project exempt. sb922 recognized safety should not be up to a veto. we deserve safe facilities. i want to give know example of where this city has upon fund ceqa appeals to delay progress this is gary boulevard. foug a for sustainable vipirally friend low public transportation that was fortunate starting as ln an lrv plan. then a brt. it was not until the exemption to ceqa review came in affect the city was able to paint a red complain speedup the bus on gary. if we approve this appeal we go back to the years where people put an nel for every street change and don't have time for thate are facing budget deficits we must move quickly and an efficient transportation system this means the exemptions are central.■f i'm here to ask you to reject the appeal the mr. presidenting department has a summary explaining why the valence why project questions of law foils for bounded efficient environmental review

. >> and so we want to fast track by eliminating any ceqa requirements.'ve got coastal act changes that we're making. i want to make sure when someone rebuilds that they have their old property tax assessments and that they're not increased. >> the executive order also extends protections against price gouging on building materials and other essential goods. the bay area is stepping up to help people impacted by the southern california wildfires today. a donation drive in the east bay saw hundreds of folks driving up willing to give. abc seven news reporter cornell bernard was there. come on in. >> hello. >> how's it going, guys? good. are you here to donate? >> yes. this drive through donation efforts stopping traffic on anchor drive in emeryville. hundreds showing up to help neighbors in southern california impacted by wildfires. >> we're californians as well. this horrifying event can't just sit around and do nothing. >> just in on the news of what's happening in southern california. it's just truly tragic. and we are just trying to help out any way we

. >> and so we want to fast track by eliminating any ceqa requirements.'ve got coastal act changes that we're making. i want to make sure when someone rebuilds that they have their old property tax assessments and that they're not increased. >> the executive order also extends protections against price gouging on building materials and other essential goods. well, the bay area is stepping up to help people impacted by those southern california wildfires. today, a donation drive in the east bay saw hundreds of folks driving up willing to give. abc seven news reporter cornell bernard was there. come on in. >> hello. how's it going, guys? good. >> are you here to donate? yes. >> this drive through donation. efforts stopping traffic on anchor drive in emeryville. hundreds showing up to help neighbors in southern california impacted by wildfires. >> we're californians as well. this horrifying event can't just sit around and do nothing. >> just seeing on the news of what's happening in southern california. it's just truly tragic. and we are just trying to help

there was a change in the resolution that removed the prior reference to ceqa no project determination. i believe that the current posted version of that resolution, does not include that and that was at my advise that that did not need to be included. so may the record reflect that the motion that the commission is now approving, approves a version of that resolution that excludes the prior reference to the ceqa, no project determination. >> thank you. now please open the public comment on my motion, on the motion, thank you. >> thank you. members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment in-person on the motion to approve item 4 the consent calendar and all resolutions contained may line up to the wall against the audience's left. if commenting from online, press the raise your hand or star 3 to be recognized. we have no callers on the queue. and that concludes public comment. >> thank you, if there are no more questions and comments all in favor of approving the consent calendar say yes or aye. >> aye. >> and the consent calendar is accepted. we now turn to the regular cal

notably, he is suspending ceqa reviews and california coastal permitting for reconstruction of properties substantially damaged or destroyed in the fires, devastating los angeles county. i also appreciate the directive to state agencies to identify additional permitting requirements that can be safely suspended or streamlined to accelerate rebuilding and make it more affordable. i want to thank the governor for hearing my request and taking swift action to ensure that our residents will not be burdened by unnecessary requirements as they begin the process of recovery and rebuilding. we are also going to need full partnership from the county, city, state and federal governments, and i am committed to bringing everyone to the table for the betterment of our residents that right now are in tremendous need. every day since these fires began, i have gone out to the impacted communities to hear directly from our neighbors and see the devastation. for myself, i'm also meeting with multiple times a day with our incident command. the focus, sacrifice and determination of our firefighters and our f

. >> and so we want to fast track by eliminating any ceqa requirements.tal act changes that we're making. i want to make sure when someone rebuilds that they have their old property tax assessments and that they're not increased. >> the executive order also extends protections against price gouging on building materials and other essential goods. the bay area is stepping up to help people impacted by the southern california wildfires. over the weekend, a donation drive in the east bay saw hundreds of folks driving up willing to give. here's abc seven news reporter cornell bernard. come on in. >> hello. >> how's it going, guys? good. are you here to donate?? good. >> yes. this drive through donation efforts stopping traffic on anchor drive in emeryville. hundreds showing up to help neighbors in southern california impacted by wildfires. >> we're californians as well. this horrifying event can't just sit around and do nothing. >> just seeing on the news of what's happening in southern california. it's just truly tragic. and we are just trying to help out an

and so we want to fast track by eliminating any ceqa requirements.coastal act changes that we're making. california leads the nation in environmental stewardship. i'm not going to give that up. but one thing i won't give in to is delay. delay is denial for people. life's traditions, places torn apart, torn asunder. >> you heard governor gavin newsom there talking about how he doesn't want delay, also talking about a new marshall plan for the city of los angeles. let's talk about that. joining us now, university of california, san diego, assistant professor of economics, judge judson boomhower. his research focuses on environmental economics, climate risk and adaptation, which is what we want to start with. judson marshall plan and adaptation. what should that look like? >> well, we've learned quite a lot in the last ten, 15 years about how to rebuild and rebuild homes affected by disasters in a way that's more resilient. and i think it's really important when we're rebuilding from this disaster, this terrible disaster in la, that we put all those les

. >> notably, he is suspending ceqa reviews and california coastal permitting for reconstruction of properties substantially damaged or destroyed in the fires, devastating los angeles county. >> i also appreciate the directive to state agencies to identify additional permitting requirements that can be safely suspended or streamlined to accelerate rebuilding and make it more affordable. >> i want to thank the governor for hearing my request and taking swift action to ensure that our residents will not be burdened by unnecessary requirements as they begin the process of recovery and rebuilding. we are also going to need full partnership from the county, city, state and federal governments, and i am committed to bringing everyone to the table for the betterment of our residents that right now are in tremendous need. every day since these fires began, i have gone out to the impacted communities to hear directly from our neighbors and see the devastation. for myself, i'm also meeting with multiple times a day with our incident command. the focus, sacrifice, and determination of our firefighters an

requirements of administrative code section 23.61 affirming the planning department's determination under ceqa and making findings of consistency with the general plan. >> thank you mr. clerk. and we have sheila nicholas gillis from mossad for a short virtual verbal presentation. >> yes, you have the floor. thank you. good morning, chair walton and supervisor cheryl. i'm sheila nicholas, director of policy at mossad. i'm here to present a request to exempt the midtown apartment park apartments from administrative code chapter six chapter six requires the property owned by the city comply with contracting procurer rules for public work or other improvement projects built in 1964. the midtown park apartments is 140 unit family housing development that includes six separate buildings and is located in the western addition at the corner of geary and de visit arrow originally constructed by a private developer, the city acquired midtown park after the private developer defaulted on a hud insured mortgage. midtown park is one of the few affordable developments owned by the city. most affordable buil

the ceqa sides was exempt from which environmental and as i indicated the next steps are implied upon approval by the commission weeds seek prompt board approval. and in the quote from the radio manager communication's manager, the legacy voice radio communication side is unreliable and requires upgrading a matter of public safety. and basically this project is waiting to go. the equipment not procured we need this site expanded allow that to happen. that's the plan. moving quickly in spring to implement the project if approved. i'm here for questions you might have about the lease. i got representatives from it team to talk about technical details of the equipment. >> thank you. commissioners issue comments or questions? commissioner arce. >> thanks, josh, for the presentation. and it does seem that time is of the esancy looking forward it hear public comment i'm ready to support this and move it forward. >> commissioner leveroni. >> i don't think i heard i might have missed the amount of square footage increase is approximately? >> we don't they don't treat like more adon't a data c

consultant on board and take a step back and a big picture look at it and look at what we can do with the ceqa permitting versus if we want to step outside that, you know, we probably won't have much to reporting in 6 months but spring or summer next year. >> thank you. >> ms. lennear have we fixed the technical public comment issues. >> it appears the equipment in this room is functioning. >> so we don't have remote public comment. >> why if there is a taking public comment for people. >> >> any members of the public present who wish to provide comment on this item? on 6 ab. >> seeing none. thank you. >> go on to the next item. 6 d the fiscal year 2024-2025 report. >> good afternoon. i'm black wood and the sfpuc director talked about i presented the quarterly performance mom report for the first quarter of 2024-2025 and may i have the slide please. as of the end of first quarter 6 audits and one performance audit were completed as of december 30th, '14 additional audits with performance audits one bond overview and focused on the revenue. in the first quarter 7 were completed and in july the

year and if any up design this project is one of the called out in our strategy plan to complete the ceqaand concept plan, which is all done. next i'm one of the things the expenditure plan focuses on or identifies it be reported out is urban forest rew. other thing is water conversation. we will touch on both throughout the presentation this is urban forest rew you seen usd a grant we are excite the 2 million dollars received from the usd a to create a preaprenticeship prospect will help us flan everplant 400 new trees and maintain trees in the southeastern communities of the city. we are using the maintenance building at 900 ennis to house this program. great collaboration and excite body this program. next we have our replacement in maintenance. buckets. part of our general fund set aside. and hit a number of our strategic plan initiatives. we worked closely with our operations capitol teams to all of the renewals and replace ams to keep our systems updated and dedicate 15 million dollars for the efforts >> going to highlight play grounds we have multiprong approach to our play grounds

requirements of administrative code section 23.61 affirming the planning department's determination under ceqa and making findings of consistency with the general plan. >> thank you mr. clerk. and we have sheila nicholas gillis from mossad for a short virtual verbal presentation. >> yes, you have the floor. thank you. good morning, chair walton and supervisor cheryl. i'm sheila nicholas, director of policy at mossad. i'm here to present a request to exempt the midtown apartment park apartments from administrative code chapter six chapter six requires the property owned by the city comply with contracting procurer rules for public work or other improvement projects built in 1964. the midtown park apartments is 140 unit family housing development that includes six separate buildings and is located in the western addition at the corner of geary and de visit arrow originally constructed by a private developer, the city acquired midtown park after the private developer defaulted on a hud insured mortgage. midtown park is one of the few affordable developments owned by the city. most affordable buil

our equity goals in a manner that is thinking outside of the box and in our review of projects under ceqaking to see how we might be able to do things differently on the one hand on the other hand you know to not do things in a way that jeopardizes our ability to meet the goals of streamlining our environmental review. >> so with this one i think that the this is reflecting an approach that we took recently on gateway where we have heard from the community that there's a lived experience in the in the bayview that that was important to recognize even if under the environmental review process we're mitigating impacts that are resulting from a project as compared to existing conditions and not from the past that is really something that's more of an environmental justice issue and it was really very important to the community that we that we that we reflect that experience in the document and so this was this was again reflecting that and yet it was kind of a piloted effort that we took in this in this project. so it's it's definitely something that we're we're fine tuning and so this feedb